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. 2026 Aug 22;27(17):7511. doi: 10.3390/ijms27177511
accptHB QikProp predicted hydrogen-bond acceptor count
ADMET absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, toxicity
AI artificial intelligence
AJCC American Joint Committee on Cancer
APC adenomatous polyposis coli
AUC area under the ROC curve
AXIN2 axis-inhibition protein 2
BLISS Balanced Latent Integration with Stability Selection (this work)
BRICS Breaking of Retrosynthetically Interesting Chemical Substructures
bRo5 beyond rule of five
CCND1 cyclin D1 gene
CDK4/6 cyclin-dependent kinase 4 and 6
CMS consensus molecular subtypes (of colorectal cancer)
CNV copy-number variation
CpG cytosine–phosphate–guanine dinucleotide
CRBN cereblon (E3 ligase substrate receptor)
CSV comma-separated values (file format)
DC50 drug concentration causing 50% degradation
Dmax maximum percent degradation
DCAF1 DDB1 and CUL4-associated factor 1
DNA deoxyribonucleic acid
donorHB QikProp predicted hydrogen-bond donor count
ETKDGv3 Experimental-Torsion Knowledge Distance Geometry, version 3
FDR false-discovery rate
GDP guanosine-5′-diphosphate
GELU Gaussian Error Linear Unit
Glide SP Glide Standard Precision (Schrödinger docking mode)
GPU graphics processing unit
hERG human Ether-à-go-go-Related Gene (potassium channel)
HOA human oral absorption (qualitative class)
%HOA QikProp predicted percent human oral absorption
IC50 concentration causing 50% inhibition
IP(eV) QikProp predicted ionisation potential (electronvolts)
KL Kullback–Leibler (divergence)
KLHDC2 kelch domain-containing protein 2
LEF1 lymphoid-enhancer-binding factor 1
LigPrep Schrödinger ligand preparation utility
MAPK mitogen-activated protein kinase
MDCK Madin–Darby canine kidney (cell line)
#metab QikProp predicted number of likely metabolic reactions
miRNA microRNA
MM-GBSA molecular mechanics combined with the generalised-Born/surface-area implicit-solvent model
MMFF94s Merck Molecular Force Field 94, static variant
MOFA multi-omics factor analysis
mRNA messenger ribonucleic acid
MSI(-H) microsatellite instability (high)
MSigDB Molecular Signatures Database
MSS microsatellite stable
mTOR mechanistic (mammalian) target of rapamycin
MW molecular weight
MYC MYC proto-oncogene
#NandO QikProp count of nitrogen + oxygen atoms
OPLS_2005/OPLS4 Optimised Potentials for Liquid Simulations force fields
PDB Protein Data Bank
PEG polyethylene glycol
PI3K phosphoinositide 3-kinase
pKa negative base-10 logarithm of the acid dissociation constant
PROPKA empirical pKa prediction program
PROTAC proteolysis-targeting chimera
PROTAC-DB PROTAC database (Liu et al. [55], NAR 2025)
PSA polar surface area (Å2)
QPlogBB QikProp predicted log(brain/blood partition coefficient)
QPlogHERG QikProp predicted log(IC50) for hERG K+ channel blockade
QPlogKhsa QikProp predicted log(human serum albumin binding constant)
QPlogKp QikProp predicted skin permeability (log cm h−1)
QPlogPC16 QikProp predicted log(hexadecane/gas partition coefficient)
QPlogPo/w QikProp predicted log(octanol/water partition coefficient)
QPlogPoct QikProp predicted log(octanol/gas partition coefficient)
QPlogPw QikProp predicted log(water/gas partition coefficient)
QPlogS QikProp predicted log(aqueous solubility, mol L−1)
QPPCaco QikProp predicted Caco-2 cell permeability (nm s−1)
QPPMDCK QikProp predicted MDCK cell permeability (nm s−1)
QPpolrz QikProp predicted molecular polarisability (Å3)
RDKit open-source cheminformatics toolkit (rdkit.org)
#ringatoms QikProp count of atoms in rings
RMSD root-mean-square deviation
ROC receiver-operating-characteristic
#rotor QikProp count of rotatable bonds
RPPA reverse-phase protein array
SASA solvent-accessible surface area (Å2)
SDF structure-data file (format)
SMARTS SMILES Arbitrary Target Specification (substructure language)
SMILES Simplified Molecular-Input Line-Entry System
SNF similarity network fusion
#stars QikProp structural alerts (descriptors outside the 95% range)
Super.FELT supervised feature-extraction learning using triplet loss [26]
TCGA The Cancer Genome Atlas
TROP2 trophoblast cell-surface antigen 2
USR Ultrafast Shape Recognition
USRCAT USR with Chemical Features (atom-type-augmented shape descriptor)
VCB VHL / Elongin-C / Elongin-B (E3-ligase complex)
VHL von Hippel–Lindau (E3 ligase substrate receptor)
VSGB Variable-dielectric Surface Generalised-Born (Schrödinger implicit-solvent model)
XGBoost extreme gradient boosting
ΔG_bind Gibbs free energy of binding (kcal mol−1)